Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Life well spent is long.